Archive for the ‘IT / Internet / E-mail’ Category
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
iTunes has the ability to manage and organize PDF files just as easy as music files, allowing radiologists to better organize their personal files of articles and images, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at Renji Hospital and Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine in Shanghai, China."Most published ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday examined the increasing popularity of blogs that detail the experiences of attempting to have children among the more than seven million people in the U.S. affected by infertility. The blog "Stirrup Queens and Sperm Palace Jesters" serves as the "infertility blogging community's central meeting place ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Access to Research Initiative has announced that on July 19th at 14:30 it will hold a special panel discussion, "Bridging the Digital Divide by 2015: partnering to provide the developing world with critical research" at the 3rd EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF 2008) in Barcelona, Spain. ESOF 2008 will bring together ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Pieris AG, a bio-pharmaceutical company developing Anticalins(R), a novel class of targeted human protein therapeutics, and Wacker Biotech GmbH, a full-service contract manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals, announced yesterday a significant milestone in the development of Pieris' PRS-050 Anticalin(R) for clinical trials. Pieris has developed PRS-050 as a next ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Physicians who do not use the tools of information technology (IT) such as electronic health records and computerized entry of prescriptions could fall short of professional standards, according to a new review.Although technology cannot replace thoughtfulness and caring, it is increasingly difficult to be a competent doctor without tech support, ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) today announced a series of new portable, compact patient monitors that provides a reliable, yet affordable means to observe and care for patients. Now available to healthcare providers in India, the new Philips SureSigns VM3 is the first Philips patient monitor designed for ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
A leading NHS (England) cardiothoracic surgeon has performed a challenging valve operation, watched via High Definition Medical Conferencing by over 40 other leading surgeons from around the world in a post graduate centre at a university campus in West London. Mr Prakash P Punjabi, a Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Imperial ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
An increasing number of men who have sex with men in Chicago are finding sex partners on the Internet, helping to fuel a rise is syphilis cases among the group, according to a report recently released by the Chicago Department of Health, the Chicago Tribune reports. The number of syphilis ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Seth A. Tropper, past co-founder of the successful Stevens spin-off Plasma Sol and current CEO of Switch2Health (S2H), and Dr. S. Vincent Grasso, a Stevens Institute of Technology Adjunct Professor and Healthcare IT Management Advisory Board member, have joined forces to extend the value of the S2H product line.S2H's proprietary ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the global leader in the breast cancer movement, and Convio, a leading provider of on-demand constituent relationship management software and services to nonprofit organizations, announced today that Komen for the Cure is deploying Convio's integrated suite of on-demand software and services in order to ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
A new study in the Journal of Communication reveals that access to an integrated system of internet health resources helps patients more than simply providing a list of URLs to accredited sites.Breast cancer affects one in eight women and is the second leading cause of cancer death among women. Led ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Insert your key in the ignition of a luxury car and the seat and steering wheel will automatically adjust to preprogrammed body proportions. Stroll through the rooms of Bill Gates' mansion and each room will adjust its lighting, temperature and music to accommodate your personal preference. But open any computer ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
For the 10th consecutive year, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) has been named one of the 100 Most Wired hospitals and health systems in the United States, according to the results of the 2008 survey by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the journal of the American Hospital Association. ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Some women living in countries where abortion is restricted are using the Internet to purchase the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol to induce abortion, according to a review published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, BBC News reports (Dreaper, BBC News, 7/11). The drugs are available via the Web ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
It's conventional wisdom that practice makes perfect. But if practicing only consists of watching, rather than doing, does that advance proficiency? Yes, according to a study by Dartmouth researchers.In a study titled "Sensitivity of the Action Observation Network to Physical and Observational Learning" published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, Dartmouth ...
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